The Shared Drive: April 2024

Summary

Our monthly celebration of CED grad student successes!

Our monthly celebration of CED grad student successes:

  • Mathematics Education doctoral student Maria Cruciani has been selected to receive a 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Read more about Maria’s work via PRIME.
  • Kinesiology doctoral student Francesca Genoese was named National Doctoral Scholar Award Honorable Mention Co-Recipient by the American Kinesiology Association. 
  • Kasun Gajasinghe, a doctoral student in the Curriculum Instruction and Teacher Education (CITE) program, has been awarded the Witness Institute Fellowship. Read more about Kasun’s work via the College of Education.
  • Educational Psychology & Educational Technology doctoral students Utku Caybas, Saki Inoue, William Van Luven and Sheza Mansoor were selectedas finalists for AERA Division C Shark Tank Competition.
  • Katie Westby, a Mathematics Education doctoral student, received the 2024 Karen King Future Leader Award at the AERA Annual Conference.
  • Lamia Bagasrawala (School Psychology Ph.D.) and Laxmi Prasad Ojha (CITE Ph.D.) were both recipients of the2024-25 COGS Disciplinary Leadership Award. Read more about their work via the Graduate School.
  • Special Education doctoral student Elizabeth Hicks received the Badar-Kauffman Early Career Scholar Award at the Badar-Kauffman Conference on Special Education Research.
  • With CED Assistant Professor Lucia Cardenas Curiel,Laxmi Prasad Ojha, Luqing Zang and Meiheng Chen (CITE Ph.D.) were recently published inInternational Multilingual Research Journal. The paper is titled: “The best way to get to know a student is to know their community”: Fostering pre-service teachers’ critical multilingual language awareness through linguistic community walks.

Share a CED student’s achievement (including your own!) via Qualtrics.